#Lord of ring two towers free#

What has taken thousands of artisans to forge cannot easily be summed up in one review. Towers follows several story lines that introduce new characters, take the viewer to new parts of Middle Earth and, except for one, build to thunderous climaxes that moviegoers will long remember. The latter is unable to take human form but exists as a giant fiery eye. The title refers to Orthanc - the stronghold of treacherous wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee) - and Barad-dur, the fortress of the dark lord Sauron.

#Lord of ring two towers free#

No character puts on the ring of power in Towers, and there’s no summation of the first film to explain its importance, but the increasingly heavy and dangerous burden carried by the hobbits Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) and the mission to destroy it is still the hope of the free peoples of Middle Earth on the eve of a great war. Indeed, assuming the better and longer “extended” version of Fellowship released last month on video is not a fluke, sometime in 2004 the unabridged Lord of the Rings will join very few other masterworks destined to stand up for decades and hopefully bring good fortune to all involved in its making. Meanwhile, some who found Fellowship a ponderous opening act will be happier with the quickened pace and expanded scope of Towers.įor those familiar with the 1,300-page book that has been marketed as a trilogy since the 1960s, the present film is assurance that next year’s Return of the King should be a truly glorious event.

While it’s not likely to spellbind Academy members enough to muster the 13 Oscar nominations that The Fellowship of the Ringreceived, the three-hour fantasy adventure has a good shot at being the first best picture-nominated sequel released a year after the original since The Bells of St. 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi': THR's 1983 Review